Invited speaker at the Beyond GRAMMATRON: 20 Years Into the Future symposium, organised on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Mark Amerika's GRAMMATRON, British Computer Society, London, September 15.

Invited speaker at the ECHIC (the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) symposium at the World Humanities Conference, Liège, August 6-12.

Public lecture, Faculty of Arts 2016-17 Public Lecture Series, Wolverhampton University, October 18.

Invited talk at Forms of Criticism symposium, University of Westminster, June 30, 2016.

Invited talk on the importance of communication, impact and public engagement for academic research, University of Warwick, June 28, 2016.

Invited talk, Cybernetic Subjectivities and the Mediation of Trust and Empathy, launch event for the Centre for Entangled Media Research, University of Lincoln, May 24-25, 2016.

Invited talk, University of Birmingham, May 23, 2016.

Invited talk, Charisma of the Book: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century, The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 14-16, 2016.

Invited lecture, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, February 18, 2016.

Keynote speaker, Hack the Book Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece, January 22-24, 2016. (More details about the festival are available here. Photos from the event are available here.)

2015

Invited talk on Interdisciplinary Research and Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges, a panel organised by Martina O’Sullivan, Senior Commissioning Editor, Cultural Studies, Rowman & Littlefield International, as part of Academic Book Week, and held at the Maughan Library, King’s College, London, November 10, 2015. (Video recording available here.)

Invited chair of the session on the sharing economy at the 7th Global Drucker Forum in Vienna, November 5-6. The Drucker Forum 2015 focused on the technology revolution, looking at topics like robotics, big data, Artificial Intelligence and cloud computing. Speakers on this session were Rachel Botsman, Robin Chase, Isabella Mader and Oussama Ammar. (A video recording of the complete session is here and the related discussion here.)

Invited talk on the Sociality of Sharing, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Warwick, September 23, 2015.

Keynote speaker, Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital, University of Kent, September 27, 2014. (Conference blogged here.)

Invited talk on Researching Contemporary Culture, Institute of English Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, July 14-16, 2014.

Invited talk on What is an Author, Now? Futures of Scholarly Communication and Academic Publishing: Roundtable Discussion with Steffen Boehm (Essex), Christian Fuchs (Westminster), Paul Kirby (Sussex), Governing Academic Life, conference on neoliberalism and the academy to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, London School of Economics and Political Science, June 25-26, 2014.

Invited talk on Futures of Theory, Salon at the Whitechapel gallery in London on how the digital has transformed theory, with the artist Cornelia Sollfrank, June 12, 2014.

Invited lecture at the annual conference of infoclio.ch, the Swiss portal for historical sciences of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) and of the Swiss Historical Association (SGG), Bern, November 15, 2013.

Plenary speaker, Oxford Union Debate, with Tony Ageh, BBC's Controller of Archive Development, Susan Hasan, Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and Nick Poole, Chief Executive of the Collections Trust, Europeana Plenary event: Connecting Society through Culture... the Power of Partnerships, Open Data and Cutting Edge Technology, Leuven, Belgium, June 13-15, 2012.

Invited talk atThe Unbound Book conference, Amsterdam Central Library and the Royal Library in Den Haag, May 19-21, 2011 (organised by the Electronic Publishing and Interactive Media department at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, in cooperation with Book and Digital Studies at the University of Leiden and the Institute of Network Cultures). (Blogged at The Unbound Book.)

Invited talk at School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, March 3, 2011.

Invited talk, 'Who Owns Research?', A Workshop for Postdoctoral Researchers, CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge, June 3, 2010. (Reviewed at Open Reflections.)

Plenary speaker, The Visual Culture Studies Conference I, organised by New York University; University of the Arts, London; and University of Westminster, London; and held at University of Westminster, May 27-29, 2010.

Invited talk, 'The Virtual University', Work in Progress Seminars, CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge, May 10, 2010.

Invited talk at Networks and Enclaves: Open Access and Work in the 21st Century University conference, presented by the UCI Humanities Center in conjunction with HumaniTech, with support from the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Coventry University, UK, and held at the University of California, Irvine, US, February 11-12, 2010. (Blogged at Virtualpolitik.)

Invited talk at School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, November 4, 2009.

Invited panellist at a workshop on new models in Open Access book publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in conjunction with the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), Lund, Sweden, September 16, 2009.

Co-organiser of, and presenter at, a session from the Open Humanities Press on open access monograph publishing, Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 8-10, 2009.

Plenary speaker at the new media seminar accompanying the Kurye International Video Festival, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2-12, 2009.

Invited talk, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, Research Centre for Digital Material Culture, University of Sussex, November 19, 2008. (Blogged at Films Studies for Free.)

Invited talk, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, University of Durham, October 29, 2008.

Invited talk for Council on Library and Information Resource Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources synchronized seminar, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, US, September 24, 2008.

Invited moderator at the ‘Sensual Technologies’ symposium, organised by Brunel University’s School of Arts and held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, June 27, 2008.

Invited talk, 'The Politics of Memory and the Archive', at the Memory, Technicity and Time' symposium, University of East London, April 18, 2007.

Invited talk, 'Post-politics', at the Do We Live in a Post World? conference, University of Lower Silesia, Poland, March 17, 2007.

Invited to present on the CSeARCH open access archive project at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, February 13, 2007.

2006

Invited talk, 'New Cultural Studies', University of Western Sydney, Australia, August 27, 2006.

Invited talk, 'Ethics and New Media', Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 21, 2006.

Invited talk, Westminster University's English Colloquia series on 'Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives', June 10, 2006.

Iinvited speaker alongside, among others, Prof. Douglas Kellner and Prof. Mark Poster at the Media, Body, Imagination conference series held at the University of California, Irvine, US, March 27-29, and the Free University, Berlin, Germany, in September 14-16, 2006.

Plenary speaker at Panic and Paranoia conference, Australian National University, Canberra School of Art, Australia, August 30, 2006.

'Prosthetics: Technology and the Human', Prosthetics and the Human, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, March 9, 2003.

'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, University of Edinburgh, March 20-23, 2002.

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